Word: mooting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Good or bad, the bill posed a number of prime questions. Though it specifically excepted the state of Georgia's suit against Eastern railroads for discriminatory freight rates (TIME, April 9, 1945), many Senators thought that the Supreme Court would drop the case as a moot question, if the bill should become...
...failure in impact is amply compensated by uproarious dialogue and a certain wackiness which can only be described as "Anita Loos." Tops in froth, Miss Loos drives her sharp-edged, relevant humor home with a vengeance. Whether a theme can be detected in the midst of it all is moot. You may not know what it is all about when the shooting stops, but you'll know you liked...
Although it remains a moot point whether Potter owes his success to the ruthlessness of Radcliffe students or to the perspicacity of the Boston Globe, he still is one of the few College Freshmen who has a dinner date this evening...
...moot fact or two: first, when I gave him the bad news, Pucci had the superb crust to suggest, even as I spoke, that of course if I wanted his servizio speciale-at a higher rate-I would undoubtedly get better results...
...study the same thing in the same rote-ridden way. As director of the University of Chicago's Laboratory School (1902-04), Dewey fathered the movement now called progressive education-"learning by living." Whether he sowed good seed, or tares, or dragon's teeth, is a moot question still...